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from Jesup, who worked at one of several auto agencies in Glennville, was a boarder as was Louise Hale, who worked at Georgia Power’s Glennville offce.

“A lot of salesmen, called drummers, came regularly to the hotel. These boarders and regular guests helped Mama pay the bills during the Depression years,” said Betty.

“We had single rooms with a bath; some of the baths were private, and others had to be shared, usually between the men,” said Betty, adding that they enjoyed steamed heat from radiators. “We had a coal scuttle that was located out of the dining room window where you’d have to go down in the basement. Jerry Waters’s granddaddy, Preston Waters, stayed at the hotel and took care of our furnace. I would sit and talk with him on the front porch of the hotel. He later

married a pretty girl, who had brown eyes,” said Betty. Although Betty is not sure of the year they left the Glennwanis Hotel, they left Glennville and went to Lyons where her mother, Ola, leased and managed the Elberta Hotel there. Redelia and Johnny went with them while they were in Lyons. During their time in Lyons, Mr. and Mrs. Norton Lawrence managed the hotel although the records of exact dates have not been found in the pages of the Sentinel . Grady and Ola Trapnell divorced, and Ola came back to Glennville. According to a June 1942 edition, Mrs. Ola Trapnell “assumed the management of the hotel from Mr. and Mrs. Norton Lawrence, who operated it for several years.” Ms. Trapnell was said to have “operated the Glennwanis several years ago, some time ago.”

In 1946, D.C. Harrison of Glennville and